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Halting Palestine's Democratic Decline

“Palestinians will not accept dictatorship. People want to be free,” one Palestinian adviser on the conflict with Israel said in March.
1 But since the last Palestinian parliamentary election in 2006, Palestine’s nascent democracy has been slowly squeezed by Israeli occupation and increasingly authoritarian Palestinian leaders. Now, fifteen years later, President Mahmoud Abbas has finally scheduled parliamentary and presidential elections. Rumors abound as to whether they will materialize. Ninety-three percent of eligible voters across Gaza and the West Bank have registered of which roughly half (ages eighteen to thirty-three) have never voted. For some Palestinians, it is a moment of hope; for the EU, it is a moment of sobriety. ....

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas must resign – or be deposed - Middle East News

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Mar. 17, 2021
Mahmoud Abbas waited for more than a decade to call for elections to the Palestinian Authority’s Legislative Council, the presidency, and the PLO’s National Council. Ironically, those planned elections are likely to backfire, and cause irreparable harm to Palestinian democracy.
That’s not because elections and democracy are bad for Palestinians. But the
timing is terrible: the elections could jeopardize the post-Trump restoration of ties with the U.S., could throw the peace process into an even deeper freeze and could lead to Fatah’s disintegration.
Furthermore, the elections are scheduled to be held in the midst of a raging pandemic which Abbas is badly mishandling: failing to both secure vaccines by his own efforts for Palestinians, and failing to make the case forcefully enough that Israel, according to Geneva Conventions, UN Security Council Resolutions, and human rights codes, is responsible for securing the vaccine for Pa ....

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With Changes in Middle East, Where Do Palestinians Stand?

With Changes in Middle East, Where Do Palestinians Stand?
According to a survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, two-thirds of respondents are demanding the resignation of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, with talk of possible successors just waiting for him to leave.
(JNS) The winds of diplomatic change in the Middle East are blowing strongly, but which way will they move the Palestinian Authority? P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas is not getting any younger, longtime adviser Hanan Ashrawi tendered her resignation earlier this month calling for the “renewal and reinvigoration” of the P.A.’s political leadership, and last month chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat died as a result of complications due to the coronavirus. ....

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With change rippling through the Middle East, where do the Palestinians stand?

With change rippling through the Middle East, where do the Palestinians stand?
With change rippling through the Middle East, where do the Palestinians stand?
According to a survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, two-thirds of respondents are demanding the resignation of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, with talk of possible successors just waiting for him to leave.
(December 30, 2020 / JNS) The winds of diplomatic change in the Middle East are blowing strongly, but which way will they move the Palestinian Authority? P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas is not getting any younger, longtime adviser Hanan Ashrawi tendered her resignation earlier this month calling for the “renewal and reinvigoration” of the P.A.’s political leadership, and last month chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat died as a result of complications due to the coronavirus. ....

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